abutment
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“When you’re plowing the road you need to know where the bridge abutment is and where the expansion joints are so you don’t hook that with a plow,” LaBoe said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021
The town, he said, still has a right-of-way along the old roadbed, and the stone bridge abutment on the side facing the Monument remains in place.
From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2019
Lines do not exist in nature, so the curved line in the center of the painting is formed by the physical abutment of two canvases.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2018
Two women were killed and six others were injured early Sunday after a boat they were in struck a concrete abutment off the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, authorities said.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2015
They sat on the broken abutment of the road and watched the river backing upon itself and coiling over the iron trelliswork.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Vocabulary lists containing abutment
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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